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OverviewThis book advances a much-needed and transformational agenda for making architecture today through a close reading of cross-laminated timber (CLT) and its material unit, the CLT blank. Both matter-of-fact and multivalent, economical and excessive, the blank has untapped potential for experimentation, innovation, and research in architecture at various scales. Blank brings together texts and work from a wide range of theorists and practitioners who make CLT central to their inquiry and, in turn, suggest design approaches that broaden the material's cultural, spatial, and technological significance for architecture, education, engineering, and industry. The book claims new conceptual territory for a material with extensive appeal whose theorization has been stuck in narratives of its sustainability. Slippages between art, architecture, and science help position Blank as an antidote to current conversations about CLT, which are fixated on its mass production and carbon footprint, portraying it as a bland product rather than an enabler of design. The book argues for the material's aesthetic and spatial potential, conjuring the kind of world that CLT can create. Striking visuals contribute to repositioning CLT architecture though new forms of representation and design responses that continue to stay in touch with pragmatics. Contributions by Jennifer Bonner, Nelson Byun, Victoria Camblin, Sean Canty, Courtney Coffman, Sam Jacob, Hanif Kara, Christopher C. M. Lee, Erin Putalik, Nader Tehrani, and Yasmin Vobis. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jennifer Bonner , Hanif KaraPublisher: Oro Editions Imprint: Oro Editions Weight: 1.129kg ISBN: 9781954081024ISBN 10: 1954081022 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 23 March 2022 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsBlank Towers Prologue: Built-in Sprezzatura - Erika Naginski After Timber Trends, or Speculations on the Cross-Laminated Timber Blank - Jennifer Bonner and Hanif Kara Blank Houses Endless Lamellae and Finer Grains: A Brief History of Better Wood - Erin Putalik Essential Planes - Christopher C. M. Lee On Blankness: Courtney Coffman Blank Panels Blank Shots: Monolithic Desires and Laminar Inevitabilities - Nader Tehrani Ten Points on CLT Models and Public Performance - Yasmin Vobis Wood Grain Models Constructing the Supergraphic: A Drawing of a Wall as Much as a Wall - Sam Jacob Cut-Out - Nelson Byun Lauren Halsey Surface Tensions - Victoria Camblin Jennifer Bolande Exploded Blanks Switcheroo, Blanks Everywhere - Jennifer Bonner Blank Characters: Elisions in Artistic Practice and Domestic Spaces - Sean Canty Pervasive Structural Analysis Dialogues of Material - Hanif Kara CLT Forecasts Contributors Image Credits AcknowledgmentsReviewsManufacturers have an overwhelming influence on the design of timber buildings, many of which simply substitute structural wood for steel. As they spell out in their forthcoming book, Blank: Speculations on CLT (AR+D Publishing), Bonner and Kara fear that if architects relinquish mass timber to the control of industry, they will miss an opportunity to create a new architecture capable of meeting the exigencies of the 21st century. --The Architect's Newspaper Manufacturers have an overwhelming influence on the design of timber buildings, many of which simply substitute structural wood for steel. As they spell out in their forthcoming book, Blank: Speculations on CLT (AR+D Publishing), Bonner and Kara fear that if architects relinquish mass timber to the control of industry, they will miss an opportunity to create a new architecture capable of meeting the exigencies of the 21st century. --The Architect's Newspaper Manufacturers have an overwhelming influence on the design of timber buildings, many of which simply substitute structural wood for steel. As they spell out in their forthcoming book, Blank: Speculations on CLT (AR+D Publishing), Bonner and Kara fear that if architects relinquish mass timber to the control of industry, they will miss an opportunity to create a new architecture capable of meeting the exigencies of the 21st century. --The Architect's Newspaper ...offers a combination of thought-provoking essays and speculative design projections to reset the conversation around CLT, or cross-laminated timber. --Architectural Record Manufacturers have an overwhelming influence on the design of timber buildings, many of which simply substitute structural wood for steel. As they spell out in their forthcoming book, Blank: Speculations on CLT (AR+D Publishing), Bonner and Kara fear that if architects relinquish mass timber to the control of industry, they will miss an opportunity to create a new architecture capable of meeting the exigencies of the 21st century. --The Architect's Newspaper ...offers a combination of thought-provoking essays and speculative design projections to reset the conversation around CLT, or cross-laminated timber. --Architectural Record Author InformationJennifer Bonner is director of MALL and associate professor of architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She is the author of A Guide to the Dirty South-Atlanta and guest editor of a special issue of ART PAPERS on Los Angeles. Her design work, including Haus Gables, a single-family residence in Atlanta constructed of eighty-seven CLT panels, has been widely published and exhibited. Professor Hanif Kara is cofounder and Design Director of AKT II, a design-led structural and civil engineering firm based in London, and professor in practice of architectural technology at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Hanif has gained international standing in the field of the built environment through practice, pioneering research, and education in interdisciplinary design. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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